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The best accessories for conference furniture

Conference furniture, perhaps more than most, is usually bought in bulk - several hundred chairs at a time, designed to set up audience seating in clearly defined rows, and often in a space that needs to be cleared out at the end of the day.

Stacking chairs are one way in which this can be done more conveniently, as they are designed to be easily portable in stacks of several chairs at a time, and to sit uniformly in each row of seating without wasting space.

There are normal chairs without arms, if you're short on space and want to use what you have as wisely as possible, or stacking armchairs offer a little 'wriggle room' for occupants without arguments from the neighbour on either side.

Whatever conference furniture you choose to buy, there are certain accessories that can help you to make the right impression, and to make it a little easier to get everything set up to a high standard.

First of all, you'll probably want to invest in a chair trolley, the perfect accompaniment to any number of stacking chairs.

This sturdily built L-shaped trolley simply slides in underneath a stack of chairs, with a carpeted base and back plate to prevent damage to the chairs themselves.

Pivot the trolley back on its own wheels to pick up the stack, and you're instantly ready to roll away, with the chairs resting safely against the back plate - probably the easiest way to move a large number of chairs into place.

Once your conference seating is laid out in rows, you can use linking clips from less than £1 each to connect the legs of one chair to those of the next, clearly defining each row of seating and avoiding the potential disaster of your lovingly laid out seating plan becoming jumbled up during use.

You can get away with using one linking clip per chair - alternate between the front and back legs - but two will provide the best anchoring to avoid a snaking effect along the row.

Finally, banquet seat pads offer the comfort of an upholstered chair, with the convenience of being removable and interchangeable.

Refresh tired old seating, change the colour to suit the event, or just keep some replacement pads spare for when you inevitably need to have some cleaned - allowing you to wash just the pads, without the chair being taken out of commission.